If New Orleans is the cradle of jazz, then New York's Garment District is where jazz spoke its first words.
Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said New York took the Jazz out of their game despite Utah's size advantage.
Since 1996, the members of the New Jazz Composers Octet have extended their own brand of jazz articulation for eight.
Mingus Big Band : The party continued from the Jazz Standard, named Best Jazz Club by New York magazine in 2008.
It was a stellar year for jazz, which was at the crossroads between "old" jazz and new, breakthrough music forms.
He studied in Paris with composer Nadia Boulanger, became the first person to teach jazz at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and started the jazz studies department at Howard University in Washington, D.
Some credit the rise of jazz-studies programs in colleges and universities for creating a new breed of jazz musician.
Each member of the New Jazz Composers Octet brings original music to rehearse and refine.
The BBC Young Musician of the Year Award has launched its 2014 talent search, which includes a new Jazz Award.
That rings true in an ensemble like the New Jazz Composers Octet, a band whose sum is greater than any individual.
More than 400 young classically trained musicians entered the 2012 contest, and more are expected to enter this time round due to the new Jazz Award.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, "A Jazz New Year's Eve" features the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band with the singing quartet New York Voices.
Here, as in many of the original cafes, the staple crowd of older men now mingles with new jazz fans as the genre spreads to a younger generation.
These are musicians who "contributed to the architecture of rock 'n' roll, " Padnos says, by transforming the traditional, bass-heavy New Orleans jazz of the marching band and whorehouse piano into something entirely new.
Today, brass bands still invigorate the streets during Mardi Gras, French Quarter jazz clubs deliver the best in live improvisation on any given night, and the Jazz and Heritage Festival brings together the past, present and future of American jazz every spring, proving year after year that New Orleans is still the jazz mecca of the world.
Cuadrado is part of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground, a collective of 10 bandleaders in a New York borough full of jazz musicians.
Ruffins, who channels Louis Armstrong with his brilliant trumpet playing and clowning vocals, has played Lincoln Center in New York City and will perform for thousands at Jazz Fest in New Orleans.
But after Katrina, New Orleans jazz, blues and zydeco artists were scattered across the nation.
For Gress, it's an update of how horns intertwine in old New Orleans jazz.
At the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which closes this weekend, Juvenile gave an emotional performance.
Demanding and no doubt a perfectionist, Previn's latest performance is on the new solo jazz piano CD, Alone.
One of the oldest recordings made by WWOZ, it was rescued by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.
In 1957, Ornette Coleman seemed to burst on the New York jazz scene.
Tourism officials said attendance at Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2007 was near pre-storm levels.
It's absolutely an all-star lineup of New Orleans jazz and blues performers.
At a recent performance at a New York jazz club, Harrell showed up looking trim in a leather jacket and sunglasses--even though it was a hot, dark summer night.
Today McDonogh 15 is more accustomed to happy hallways bursting with the colors of Mardi Gras and the strains of adolescents playing New Orleans jazz in the school band.
And John Fulljames directs "American Lulu, " composer Olga Neuwirth's New Orleans jazz reworking of the first two acts of Alban Berg's opera, with a third act entirely her own (Sept. 14-24).
As clarinet player and scholar Michael White points out, New Orleans jazz arose out of turbulent times in the early decades of the twentieth century, and these post-Katrina years are turbulent times, too.
Laurendine is already in the works of coordinating more hackathon events in conjunction with larger sporting and music events, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April and this years Final Four in Atlanta.
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